Reactor designNonproliferationRussian naval nuclear fuel and reactors pose both proliferation and environmental threats, ranging from the possible theft of highly enriched uranium fuel to the radioactive contamination of the environment, whether due to accident, neglect, or sabotage. Current conditions at ...
The agency confirmed that despite the damage 50 Let Pobedy is operating in normal mode along the Northern Sea Route. The icebreaker’s nuclear reactor, located at the rear of the vessel, was not affected by the impact. The press service of Atomflot told Russian news agency TASS ...
regardless of who the provider is. Russian nuclear fuel supplies could become a problem even in the absence of political intentions, for example, due to increased demand or temporarily reduced supply due to an accident or problems paying for fuel due to economic sanctions. The recent experience ...
the plant’s Ukrainian staff continued to oversee the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel and supervise the concrete-encased remains of the reactor that exploded in 1986, causing the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Chernobylwas famously the site of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, with radioactive fallout spewing over a large part of Europe. Its reactors are now encased in a huge protective structure resembling an aircraft hangar. Image:The strike tore a hole in the protective shield. Pi...
Five Rosatom employees and two military personneldied in the accident. The explosion happened on a barge and impacted the reactor core that caused leakage of radionuclides to the air. Radio Svaboda’s study says the actual missile test happened earlier and the work now was...
TOMSK, October 27. /TASS/. Scientists at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have found a way to synthesize fuel oxide compositions for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, making them safe in case of an accident and synthesizing hydrogen left in them, associate professor of the Nuclear Fuel Cyc...
as research into nuclear fission has been conducted in Kharkov since the 1930s. In addition, five nuclear power plants were built in Ukraine during the Soviet years: Zaporozhye, Rovno, Khmelnitsky, and South-Ukrainian, as well as the infamous Chernobyl, where an accident involving a power unit...
Some Russian troops were still in the “exclusion zone” around the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Friday morning, a day after ending their occupation of the plan…
"Thirty years have passed since the accident and we've still not cleaned everything up," she told the BBC. "It's easily another 50-year programme. "If people aren't properly working on that facility and progressing the decommissioning, it could be a really big problem." ...